Vaughan, ROBERT, was born in 1795, in 1819 entered the ministry, and was in turn Independent minister at Worcester, Kensington, professor of
History in the university of London, and president of the Lancashire Independent College, Manchester (1843-57). After his retirement he preached at Uxbridge, St John's Wood, and Torquay, where he died, June 15, 1868. He founded the British Quarterly Review in 1845, and edited it for twenty years, and was chairman of the Congregational Union in 1846.
Among his many books may here be named Life of Wycliffe (1828), Causes of the Corruption of Christianity, History of England under the House of Stuart (1840), and Revolutions in History (3 vols. 1859-63).